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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 08-21-2010 11:57 PM

Facebook Places is yet another technological reason why no one should screw around on a significant other. Big Brother is watching and we are Big Brother.

Even if you disable all tagging stuff in the Facebook Places feature any of your friends (or even friends of friends) could announce he/her saw that you arrived at a certain place with a certain somebody and that certain somebody certainly isn't your significant other. Most certainly. And you'll certainly be screwed over this situation. Deleting that certain "friend" from your friends list will then be the least of your problems.

Still, I consider Facebook to be more positively useful than negative. I've gotten back in touch with friends not seen in more than 20 or even 30 years. As someone who grew up as a Marine Corps brat in various places across the country (and Japan) I think that is very cool.

It's pretty cool, but sort of scary at the same time, in how Facebook is getting so heavily integrated into smart phones. My contact list and calender has all sorts of hooks into Facebook. If you have listed your birthday or a particular important event on FB and am in my friend's list your birthday and/or event will automatically show up in my phone's calender. It's convenient, but may inspire yet another new level of laziness.

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

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From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 08-22-2010 12:07 AM

quote: James Westbrook
One of my facebook friends posted recently that her boss is a "c__t". This was over a month ago, and that friend is still employed. Must mean the friend's coworkers are not her facebook friends and thus didn't know and didn't tell on her.

There are multiple possibilities here;

-Her Facebook friends agree that the boss is a cunt bitch.

-Her Facebook friends don't feel like getting involved in her drama.

-She blocked her coworkers from seeing that particular status update. Easy to do.

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James Westbrook
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa
Registered: Mar 2006

posted 08-22-2010 02:43 AM

*laughing*
That particular girl is all about drama, Joe, so it's answer #2.
Strangely I have several female "friends" who seem to relish breaking up with their boyfriends on Facebook or bitch about how the boyfriend doesn't understand her needs. I once sent a note to one of them informing her that "Boys don't know that shit instinctively. We are not wired that way. You have to train and teach that boyfriend what your needs are."
She agreed, but after she had another facebook "spat" with her boyfriend I simply started ignoring her. I should "hide" her entries like I hide all the Farm Ville related shit from my newsfeed.

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Aaron Garman
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Toledo, OH USA
Registered: Mar 2003

posted 08-22-2010 10:12 PM

It's been fun updating places...but I don't know how useful it will be in a small town or if hardly any of your friends use it. I was using loopt, but hardly anyone I knew was using it as well, so it made it kind of pointless. I'm hoping since Facebook has integrated it, I can have some more fun.

AJG

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

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From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 08-23-2010 12:09 AM

I don't really see the point in Places or Foursquare or whatnot. If you want people to know you're somewhere, just say you are there! Interestingly, my Twitter geotags every post I make, but doesn't say the place where I am, just a street that is near me.

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Scott Norwood
Film God

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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-23-2010 06:26 AM

7:24am - en route to store; need milk and eggs

(does anyone really care about this?)

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Brad Miller
Administrator

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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 08-23-2010 07:36 AM

Scott, are you getting the extra large eggs? I'll bet you are a 2% kind of guy.

Nobody ever "signs in" to the restroom.

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Scott Norwood
Film God

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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-23-2010 07:43 AM

8:41am - bought milk (Garelick Farms, whole, one quart) and eggs (large, brown, half dozen); now at work; it is raining outside

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Mike Heenan
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 08-24-2010 07:54 PM

My status one day a few months back : Pooing is no longer fun to do when you're eating healthy.

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 08-24-2010 10:50 PM

Try this experiment: eat nothing but fruit for three days. Apples, oranges, grapes, bananas, etc. One of my friends, a chiropractor and fitness freak, says it works very well to cleanse the body of lots of bad stuff.

You'll camp out on the toilet a LOT. Not quite as bad as drinking quarts of "go lightly" before a colonoscopy, but still pretty bad nonetheless.

It reminded me of one of my Grandfather's metaphors for diarrhea: the green apple squirts.

I don't care what anyone says, bathroom humor is funny. Git er done!

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Mark Hajducki
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 500
From: Edinburgh, UK
Registered: May 2003

posted 08-25-2010 08:19 PM

quote: Chad Souder
The only security change Facebook needs to make is allowing the user to distinguish between "Friends" and "acquaintances."

Shouldn't there be a third option of "Family"?

quote: James Westbrook
One of my facebook friends posted recently that her boss is a "c__t". This was over a month ago, and that friend is still employed.

Will depend on the boss/company

The following appeared in a film rated 15 (not 18) in the UK, so is obviously not too offensive.

quote:
Y'know, I've come across a lot of psychos, but none as fucking boring as you. You are a real boring fuck. Sorry, sorry, I know you disapprove of swearing so I'll sort that out. You are a boring F, star, star, CUNT!

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